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• Mitsui Sumitomo plans major investment in specialty underwriter WR Berkley

  28 March 2025

  Japanese insurer cites profits, geographic diversification and capital efficiency as reasons for investment

• WR Berkley posts record $1.3bn annual net investment income

  28 January 2025

  CFO Richard Baio flags better to come as reinvestment rate tops book yield

• WR Berkley reports eye-watering improvement in interest income

  25 January 2024

  Almost 75% of total portfolio is of fixed maturity

• WR Berkley expects "drought, and moments when it's raining money" from alternatives

  27 January 2021

  Arbitrage trading and alternatives pay off for the US insurer in Q4

• WR Berkley reaps $105m gain from New York office block sale

  04 January 2021

  Re/insurer lists out outsourced alternative investments after vowing to stick with non-mainstream allocations

• Scor reveals reinvestment freeze at height of pandemic crisis

  06 November 2020

  French underwriter's reinvestment yield is now 1.4%

• WR Berkley's Q2 investment income falls by $100m on COVID-19 impact

  22 July 2020

  Re/insurer keeps to defensive investment stance

• Insurers report $8.7bn investment losses in COVID-19 infected Q1

  04 May 2020

  Reported damage still coming as many European, US insurers expected to report this month

• WR Berkley sticks with alternatives investments despite Q4 turbulence

  29 January 2020

  Re/insurer still expects non-mainstream allocation to outperform in long term

• Reinvestment risk hits yields at global reinsurers

  06 September 2017

  But macroeconomic worries deter greater risk-taking, says Willis Re